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Manny Rayner's book reviews
I love reviewing books - have been doing it at Goodreads, but considering moving here.
Currently reading
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
R in Action
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
The Airs of Earth
At least three of the stories in this collection are excellent. O Moon Of My Delight, on which the cover illustration is based, is a poetic flight of fancy set on a world that has been converted into a kind of spaceport for faster-than-light ships. The planet is divided into two hemispheres: one is like Earth, and the other is a sterile vacuum like the Moon. In between, girdling the equator, is the landing strip. Every time a starship comes in, the shock jerks the whole planet around so that day abruptly turns into night, or vice versa. The narrator becomes fond of a little girl he gets to know, but her passion is for the ships. I wonder what the images mean? They're very memorable, anyway.
